Program to make sure cpu is cool

[RWT98]

as the title says i want a program to check how cool my cpu is running since im about to install a water cooling block 

[MountainDrew]

HWMonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

 

It's what I use.

[thekeemo]

Hwmonitor is my go to

[KemoKa]

Your motherboard should have that utility installed already. Your CPU has a thermometer on it and your motherboard probably has several others.

[KemoKa]

Other than that, you have HWMonitor.

[Hoppa]

I use RealTemp, and have it in the startup items.

Allows me to always have a temp reading of GPU and CPU in my taskbar.

[DIV1D3]

HWMonitor is good, but I prefer MSI's Afterburner Utility, I like how it graphs the temperatures, fan speeds, usage, and a variety of other good things.  

[Guest Philosophy]

I use Hwmonitor. 

[RWT98]

Hwmonitor is my go to

how are my temps ? its air cooled now about to switch to water

[thekeemo]

how are my temps ? its air cooled now about to switch to water

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thatys pretty decent mine are a bit higher

[GeekySole9354]

how are my temps ? its air cooled now about to switch to water

temps.PNG

You don't need liquid cooling, the temps are good.

[j.dirona]

Hwmonitor is good I also use Speedfan a fair bit just to check and make sure the numbers match up

[RWT98]

You don't need liquid cooling, the temps are good.

plan to start over clocking 

[GeekySole9354]

plan to start over clocking 

My recommendation would to get a air cooler instead.

[Benji_w]

HWinfo64 is what I use with my FX8350, temps are not accurate unless under load and even then they are an algorithm so basically a rough estimate.

[Ghost]

Please run a stress test if you want advice on changing cooling solutions. Idle temperatures mean nothing in most cases.

 

Some of the stress tests you can run:

OCCT

AIDA64

Prime95

[Benji_w]

Please run a stress test if you want advice on changing cooling solutions. Idle temperatures mean nothing in most cases.

 

Some of the stress tests you can run:

OCCT

AIDA64

Prime95

 

Don't run prime95 with the haswell intel cpus, members on here have told me that prime likes to overvolt it or something.

[Ghost]

Don't run prime95 with the haswell intel cpus, members on here have told me that prime likes to overvolt it or something.

If you can run a task on your CPU that burns it then there is flaw with the CPUs design, your CPU should be able to handle any workload. Also Prime95 has been updated for the haswell's (AVX2) instruction set.

 

Source: http://www.mersenne.org/download/

 

What can happen is when a CPU is very new, the stress test programs have not been updated yet to the new instruction set. I suggest not trusting people's word on the forum, take what they say and do some research. There are a lot of rumours spread that become outdated but are still spread later because people take them to be fact.

[Benji_w]

If you can run a task on your CPU that burns it then there is flaw with the CPUs design, your CPU should be able to handle any workload. Also Prime95 has been updated for the haswell's (AVX2) instruction set.

 

Source: http://www.mersenne.org/download/

 

What can happen is when a CPU is very new, the stress test programs have not been updated yet to the new instruction set. I suggest not trusting people's word on the forum, take what they say and do some research. There are a lot of rumours spread that become outdated but are still spread later because people take them to be fact.

 

Sorry it should of been more of a question than a statement tbh, thank you for helping clear that up!

[Spev]

Personally I prefer to use temps from either my motherboard manufacture or monitor them with MSI afterburner.